THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1901.

. By an adverisetnent in this issue it will be seen that the shooting season does not open till May Ist. The troopship Chicago took away 100 tons of jam from Hobart fir tiouth Africa.

Special purchase, men’s allwool colonial under flume's, 2 s lid each, large size at Sbackleton and Grant’s.. New winter good* on view at Shackle - ton and Grants, new furs la 9d, flrnnels 1-, blankets, shawls, dress goods, etc etc. The steamer Bt. Mary, under charter to the Guvernme t, i ai arrived at the Bluff to load 23,000 sacks of grain for China.

r .fho Government have approved of plans for new baths at Rotorua, to be called after the Duke and Duchess- of Cornwall.

During, the ppst year the G-raldine Road Board has' spent £ll7 8s 4d in the purchase of poisoned grain aud birrs’ heads and eggs. The New Zealand Times says that the Government intend to invite men of-war of foreign nations to b* in New Zealand waters during the Royal visit.

The trial ot the Duncan Cultivator which was lu have been held at Mr Side’s farm, Wu.hao Bridge, yostei day, -,was postponed tilt Monday a' 2 p. m. on account of the Studholme sale. Information has been received in Weihuglou that some no.orious Annt aliau > x-convicfs, liberated in con-ec-tian with the Commonwealth celebrations, are new making their way to New Zealand.

The resumption of the inquest on Conway has b'-m altered to Mar t) 26 Che woman Smith was (urinary charged t the Police Court with causing ionway’s death, and was lem uded to M-rch‘27tli.

!he weather in Waimate during the art few days has been perfect, and li irvtsting op-.-rations a<e in fully -swing 5 nue very good yields of grain are revolted fiom the Waihao and VVaihaounga districts.

i A sawmillo.s’ union is about to be j formed in Chrislcliu ch, and will bi called the Timber Timber Yard and Sawmdlers’ Industrial Union, those ebg ble to include those men working in coal yards. A man was brought down from Nelson on Wednesday who had been arrested on war;atit there, on a charge of neglecting to carry out a maintenance order. He went by the ex,jr as to Oamaru yesterday, and will be charged before the Court there. An illicit still has been discovered at Tivuana, near Coromandel, three men named Feign-on, McCormick and McLean have been a.rested. The existence of ibis has been suspected for two years, aod several unsuccessful searches have previously been made. Lord Carrb'gtou, announcing the accession and speaking in the Ivng’s name, at Paris on Taursday, exchanged congratulatory addresses with Picsident Laubot at the Elyses Palace, and said that cordial relations existed between Dritain and Franco, and ' hat there was a desire to steadily str ngthen them.

At the Dune-1 in Police Court on Thursday two dairy keepers, Ano Richards aod Thomas Coa.hlin were lined each 5s tor carrying pigs’ food in spring vans u«ed for the delivery of rabk Thi so were ihe fiist prn.ecutions under the Dairy Industries Act of 1893 and the regulations gazetted iu conn.cion therewith.

A not:tica : ion appears in this is»ue re the annual meeting of the Wahnate Choral and Orchestral Union, to be held in St. Augua.jne’s schoolroom o.i Tuesday noil, a good attendance of working members, and others willing to assist this energetic society is r> questod. Last year the union had a very successful season and we hope to be able to say the same at the close of the coming season. We understand that Mr Frank Hyams, the well-known jeweller of Dunedin and Lnuion, and whose business advertisement appears in another comma of onr paper, (will airive iu Dunedin bef re Easter on a vis.t of a few months duration, end he brings with him a quantity of new goods for his Dunedin hu iness, which will doutless be appreciated by the public.

News from ths New Hebrides stales that a severe hurricane on January 25th caused great damage to crops. The gale was especially severe at Erromanga, where the church and portion of the Rev. Robortson'sreaidence were blown down. A tidal wave followed, and washed away the boat sheds and' copra sheds, and killed a native teacher at Santo. The Oamaru Mail states that the salmon hatchery ai> Hakataramea so tar is proving a great success. There are many thousands of young fish from three to six inches long in the boxes, being fed on paste made Ircm liver and milk. A few thousand have b en placed in la pond, and the others will also he placed in ponds as they and the ponds are ready.

A Wellington cable says: It has been definitely decided not to hold the usual Easter camps, but authority is given by the mounted rifles of Otago and Canterbury to hold separate camps. The Southland corps will hold a •district camp at Wyndham, and the Nelson corps will have a camp near Nelson. There will be a g neral camp in eachof the four centres during the Duke of Cornwall's visit.

Soma very strong complaints have been made 1o the effect that some persons have already opened the shooting season of their own accord, and that the lagoons both north and south of Tiinaru are being repeatedly shot over. The Acclimatisation Society has now taken the matter in hand, says the Morning Post, and it has determined, it possible, to bring the offenders to book. At a fire in Cumberland street, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the New Zealand .Express Company’s stables were totally destroyed and several horses burned. The reinsurances of the New Zealand Company’s risk of £8770; on the fire are; United, 1800 ; National, £1000; Guardian, £1000; Victoria, 4,750 ; Northern, £SOO. The furniture risk is divided between abdip 35 owtmrs. The principal losers are ..Mrs Larnfoh aud Mr Douglas Larnach. C Evidently Mir O. C. h.Mj| Dunedin, has not a high opinion of the truthfulness, generally, of witnesses called in the Police Court. His attention haviug'been called to the fact that a youngster did not seem to understand the nature of an oath, his Worship directed that the boy should mats an affirmation that he would speak the truth. He then said: “ Judging from my experience here, I think k very little matters'whether witoewet; are sworn or nut nowadays*’ 1 *‘

The Timatu Morniny Post says; “An opening m South Africa for frozen pork in likely to occur very shortly, for Messrs Yccht and S’ockvis, who are establishing a baccn factory in South .Africa, under contract with the Do Beers Company, expect ip pu chase part of the raw product in the colonies, lb is proposed at first to take 200 pigs per week, and it is expected that the demand will increase to 1000 pigs per week. The pigs will be slaughtered and parly cured, then frozen and despatched in that state to South Africa for mild curing," An rxceptiooally heavy yield of oats comes from Rangitata. Mr Duncan Taylor, junr.. Orton, South Rangatata, has just threshed from a 14-acre paddock a total of 1438 bushels of Danish oats, or ab ut 102 i bushel* per cere. The crop was sown down in August, after a previous crop of rape. The crop preceding the rape wa* wheat, which yielded bushels per acre. In another paddock : Mr Tayio'r has over 60 bushels of Canadian oat« per acre. These figures are strictly accurate, and can be Vouched for t>y our co respondent. Many of the crops in this district are yielding very well, — Morning Post, Agricultural and pastoral statistics for the colony are published in a supplementary Gazette, the figures given bring to October 15th These show : Wheat for thrashing. 206,465 ac>es ; for chaffing and feeding down, 1619; oats for threshing, 449,534 acres; for ciwffi g, 191,507; bailey for threshing, 30,932 acres; for ensilage, 4503 ; potatoes, 28.324 acres : turnips, 404,533 acres; mangolds, 7341 acres; rape, 124.318 ac- es ; beet, 385 acres ; carrots, 1627 acres. The total numb- rs of stock ,u the colony at April, 1900, w*re : Horses, 2)2.,570; cattle, 1,256,680; swine, 250,867 ; sheep, 19.353,193 —the last-dam d sh wing an increase on the year, of 6689. The British India Company's sb-amcr Jumna, arrived in London on Wednes ■ day la b, from Queensland po, ts after an a arming fire, which was discovered in the bu:ik"ra on Match 9ih. The vesse put into Algiers and removed 300 tonof coal, ami sail-.d igaiu. On the follow iog Monday toe fire reappeared in thin tin hold. It raged for ten horns am. l proad seriously, the enginero.-m beenni ing almost untenable. Boat 4 were pro visioned ready for lowering. The ere a and pas-engera, under the leadersni; of the chief and third officers and the purser, jettisoned many tons nf cargo. vVith great difficulty they finally sub dued the fire. A steamer which came in sighi, remained al mgsi ie the Jumna all night. The can;o Buffered by the water pou-ed in. Afier calling at Ply mouth on Tuesday she proceeded to Laiidoa.